Nassa situla
| Nassa situla | |
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| Nassa situla shells | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Nassa |
| Species: | N. situla |
| Binomial name | |
| Nassa situla (Reeve, 1846) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Nassa situla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae.[1]
Description
The shell grows to a length of 35 mm
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Oman.
References
- 1 2 Nassa situla (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 31 December 2010.
- Houart R. (1996) The genus Nassa Röding 1798 in the Indo-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Rapaninae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 126(1-2):51-63
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